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Marconi, Guglielmo b. April 25, 1874 d. July 20, 1937Italian Inventor, Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner. He is remembered for his pioneering work on long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. He is often credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun. Born Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, his father was an Italian aristocrat and his mother was of Irish/Scottish descent. He was educated privately in Bologna in the lab of physicist...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)Villa Falcone, Sasso Marconi, Cittą Metropolitana di Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy